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CBP Area Port Director Daniel Mattina told NBC News the man was apprehended, processed and returned to Brazil. CBP called him the first impostor detected with the technology. CBP releases record a second (8 September 2018) and third (1 October 2018) impostor at Dulles and, by September 2021, more than 900 impostors nationally. 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